Why Don't People Understand that Too Many Tattoos Make Them Look Trashy?

Fuck off. I have a tattoo and proud of it! Only one...but I love it!

Same here!

nothing "hurt" about the bleachy-slutty-looking tattooed bitches I see with groaning full carts using foodstamps--their reproductive systems surely work fine, particularly, as I sometimes see them with the broods they have pooped out to earn that foodstamp allottment and their section8 rent and their 50c medicaid prescriptions--"professional" breeder-class mooches, sportin tattoos, and usually have iphones or droid with blutooth that they can apparently afford to talk on while in line, about nothing--

I wear a tee shirt and cover it up almost all the time, I did it for me and no one else.

Birds of a feather flocks together.

So all you tattooed people can join one another and create your own tribe.

Other folks can go about their business.

Problem solved and no more animosity.

Sounds neat! Mine's on my back too, but not too big. I love where it is because I can cover it with a t-shirt/regular shirt if needed, but if I wear a tank top its visible.

I miss the days when the only people who had tattoos were criminals, bikers, Carnival workers or sometimes military.

These people today with full sleeves or neck and face tattoos just make me think there must be some deep seeded psychological issues or something. It's like you're begging to be discriminated against.
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Dude you seem about as dynamic as a toad , where'd you get your code of ethics Billy Graham ? and all the other boring twats on here going on about tattoos and ppl on food stamps like there shit don't stink. I come to glp for people who share an open mind. We don't have to agree but at least we can express crazy ideas without being totally ostracized.when did this site get filled up with so many tight asses. And don't give me the " your being hypocritical" line. I'm calling you out on your superficial judgements toward others. And no I don't have tattoos I dress fairly conservatively but can somehow still appreciate self expression

As I said, there ARE people that abuse the system - no doubt about it. But there are also people that truly need it and that dont abuse it. My point was that you cannot say a person shouldn't get help because of a friggin tattoo..its ridiculous...for that matter....you cant really establish any criteria, except for looking at a person's income, like they do. What SHOULD happen is that people who get help should be forced to do job searches and such and only be allowed to get the help for a limited amount of time. That's the real problem. And, if someone has a job and quits, they shouldn't get help either.

Tattoos are fine if they're discreetly located and covered by one's underwear. But anyone with a neck tattoo has got to accept that their pool of prospective employers is a tiny fraction of what it was pre-tattoo. Facts of life. That's why most tattoo junkies end up in the tattoo business. Not a lot of choices elsewhere.

As you can see from my other post I LOATHE 'angel wing' tattoos. TACKY TACKY TACKY. Unoriginal, most of the time very badly drawn, incredibly cheesy and - did I say tacky?

WHY do people get that done?

I'm not anti-tattoo. I've seen some wonderful work. I have friends who have tattoos - a few are almost covered in them. I like the psycho-billy style so long as someone isn't grungy looking, and have seen some very gorgeous flower tattoos. Bettie Page/pinup ones are too over-done at this point though.

I don't automatically assume someone is trashy simply because they have tattoos.

But if I see bad, cheap tattoos that haven't been maintained (or touched up every few years), along with other factors AND trashy behavior like being drunk or high in the middle of the day, then yeah, I'm gonna judge. Not that they are or aren't a bad person, but just that I don't really care to interact with them. I admit it.

Tattoos look just like all that crap kids scribble on their binders in Jr High. There's going to be a lot of old people with really bad-looking skin in a few decades.

Drug urinalysis would cut the foodstamp leech rolls in half--and tattoos are a good indicator of who should piss in the cup....

Yeah cause people with tattoos are all druggies right?

God the level of stupidity on this thread is discouraging....

I'll agree with the drug testing though...that should be a requirement....but the second half of your statement proves my point..that too many people make assumptions about people with tattoos.....there are just as many addicts out there that DON'T have tattoos.

You can do all the "job searches" you want but with a spider tattooed on your neck there aren't going to be any offers in a job market like today where employers can pick from ten not mutilated-by-tacky-tattoo candidates for every job available

Illiterate.

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You have proven yourself to be such a hyprocrite.

everyone did it just for themselves

Not all--but those literally covered in that shit, I'd venture "most" is correct.
If you have money for tattoos and request public assistance you should have to prove you aren't also pissing away money on drugs and still expecting sober working taxpayers to feed you so you can "express yourself" with the "art" you picked from a template catalog...
Usually people make "assumptions" based on patterns that are generally accurate--bikers with tattoos usuall do drugs, so do black "gansstas with those ugly jailbird homemade tattoos..fact--no one with money for drugs is entitled to but steaks with public money imnho

For sure . . .

Can you imagine if all bets were off and NO ONE had to adhere to any codes of conduct and appearance? I mean, we're almost there anyway, but at least SOME people still believe in the notion that being clean, presenting a decent appearance, and behaving in a civil manner MATTERS.

One of the best and most reliable business opportunities of the next 20 years

will be tattoo removal studios

especially when they get just a little bit better at it

when everybody together starts lamenting how stupid it was to do what everybody else was doing...

You must be an old-fashioned prude-y Uncle Tom:)

I dont do drugs and like I said I have a tattoo, also I paid for mine out of my Paycheck, several paychecks. hey if some one has a bad one that is up to them, I believe in a free world, its usually the guy next door type that turns out to be the ax murderer

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Yeah cause people with tattoos are all druggies right?

God the level of stupidity on this thread is discouraging....

I'll agree with the drug testing though...that should be a requirement....but the second half of your statement proves my point..that too many people make assumptions about people with tattoos.....there are just as many addicts out there that DON'T have tattoos.


Okay, I am not saying that EVERYONE who has tattoos has a drug problem or anything like that. Not every tattooed person is a druggie, but a lot of druggies are pretty well tattooed. Being a nurse, you should see this regularly.

You have to understand that the stereotype IS based on something.

Sure, there are going to be some people on here who are extremist on BOTH sides of this argument, but you are generalizing extremists as much as extremists are generalizing all tattooed people.

If you aren't moching foodstamps, section 8, or medicaid, good for you, everyone gets to make their own mistakes and bad judgements and enjoy the benefits or suffer the consequences.
If your tattoo can't be hidden, I wouldn't hire you.

what part of that of that is being hypocritical? That I agree drug testing should be a requirement, or that I stated the FACT that people without tattoos are drug addicts just as much as people with tattoos?

well as I said before..I think ANYONE requesting assistance should be drug tested...but NOT just people with tattoos. Seriously, how well would that go for them to test just certain "groups" of people?